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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameBird Nests
Most people know about how birds use leaves and twigs to build nests in trees. But not many people know about the other ways birds build nests, and that some birds don’t build any kind of nest. Choose two of the birds from this article and write what you would tell a friend about these birds and their eggs. You can look back at the article before you start writing to pick your birds and review the information but do not look at the article while you are writing. When you finish writing, you can look back at the article and see if you included all the facts you want to share and add facts if you want to. Here is a word bank to get you started and help with spelling.
barn swallows mud roof tailorbirds other birdssew thread leaves beaks eaglesauks cliff circle pointed platformsking penguins lower belly feet cuckoos years
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameGoing With the Flow
Most people know about air pollution, but now many people understand that water pollution is also a huge problem. Write what you would tell a friend about how water gets polluted and what we can do to stop water pollution. You can look back at the article before you start writing but do not look at the article while you are writing. Use some of these words to tell how to solve this problem.
pollution streams rivers oceanchemicals garbage drinking swimmingpeople plants animals drain
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name namePosters Over Time
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about posters. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
bands billboards buy events wallsmovie people products TV show ways
Posters are used to advertise name
that
name can buy. Posters are also used to advertise
name people can attend.
name
use posters to make people want to come to their concerts. Posters can also make
people want to go to see a new name
or tune
in to a new name
. Advertisers make money in two
name when they make a poster. They make
money when people name
the poster. They also
make money if their poster is shown on name
that people
can see when they are walking or driving past them. Many kids hang smaller posters on
their bedroom name
.
name
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameWorking Dogs
Most people know that Seeing Eye dogs can help blind people, but they don’t know exactly how. Write what you would tell a friend about how Seeing Eye dogs help blind people. You can look back at the article before you start writing but do not look at the article while you are writing. Here are some words you might use.
harness lead stop curb safe bumpingobey command body travel job independent
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameCool Hats
Do you like hats? Most kids do, and many kids have lots of hats. Write about how hats can make you look cool and stay cool. Use some of these words.
baseball cap fashion visorsun rays shade eyessunburn protect ear n summer
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameDrums
Most people know that drums make different kinds of sounds, but they don’t know why. Write what you would tell someone about how different drums make different sounds. Use some of these words.
vibrate high low smalllarge stretch shell coveringstrings snare tight loose
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameQuilts
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about quilts. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
art blankets bees escape freedomknights other stores thousands used
People have been making quilts for name
of years. Long ago, quilts were name
for
clothing. name
wore quilted clothing under their
armor to keep warm. When the earliest immigrants came to the United States,
there were very few name
where they could
buy things. Women cut up old clothes and used them to make new clothes and
name. Women often got together and helped
each name
finish quilts. These parties were called quilting
name. African American slaves also made quilts. Some
of these quilts may have helped slaves name
by
showing them the way to name
. Today we can
easily buy clothes and blankets in stores. But people still enjoy quilts and see quilts as a
form of name
.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameThe Wide World of Bread
What kinds of bread do you eat? Do you have toast or muffins for breakfast? What kinds of sandwiches do you like? Do you like sandwiches that come on buns? Pita and pizza are flatbreads. Do you like them? What do you like on your pita or pizza? Here are some words you might use to write about your favorite ways to eat bread.
toast roll bun sandwichpita pizza cheese jellybutter hamburger hot dog pepperoni
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameThe Hidden Meanings of Names
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about state names. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
canoes Charles George history queensLouisiana Maryland meadow New York West Virginia
Many state names tell you something important about that state’s
name. Because Native Americans often traveled in boats,
Missouri may mean “people of the big name
.” Also, because
Kentucky had large fields, its name may mean name
in Native
American languages. Many states were named after kings and name
.
Georgia was named for King name
. North and South
Carolina were named after King name
.
name was named after King Charles’ wife, Queen
Henrietta Marie. Virginia and name
were named
after Queen Elizabeth I, who was called the virgin queen because she never
married. name
was named for a French king
named Louis. Some states are named for places in other countries. New Jersey and
name are named for places in England: Jersey and York.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameVoting Makes a Difference
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about voting. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
1860 can citizen democracy peopledifference don’t eighteen James Madison vote
The United States government is a name
. This
is a Greek word that means “rule by the name
.” The
people name
for their leaders. To vote, you have
to be at least name
years old and a United States
name. Some people
name
vote because they think their vote won’t make a name
.
But sometimes that one vote name
make a difference.
name lost the presidential election by one vote in
name.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameVideo Games for Work and Play
What do you think about video games? Do you play them? Do your friends play them? What about your family members? Do they play video games? Some people think kids spend too much time playing video games. Do you agree? Write about your experiences with video games and those of your friends. Give your opinion about whether or not video game time should be limited and why you think so.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameAdding Up Pennies
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about pennies. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
banks coins countries make metalminting more pay pennies stop
Did you ever wonder where money comes from? name
are made in a mint, so the process of making them is called name
.
Coins are made by melting name
. Once the metal is
cooled, it is cut into round pieces. Trucks take the coins to name
.
Pennies cost more to name
than they are worth. Some countries
are not making any name
small coins like pennies. Canada
is one of those name
. In Canada, if you were paying with
cash and you owed $10.62, you would name
only $10.60. The
United States is still making name
. Do you think we should
name making them?
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameWhat Makes a Wall Great?
Put all these words in the right places to complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about the Great Wall of China. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
Beijing brick died dirt hundredsmiles people skeletons stone thirty
The Great Wall of China is twelve thousand name
long. Some parts of it are name
feet high. The
wall took many name
of years to build. People used
local materials to build the wall including name
,
name, and
name. Many
workers name
while building it. Some people say the
name of those who died are buried in the wall. Every year
thousands of name
visit the Great Wall. Most of these
people visit the part of the wall that is near name
, the
capital of China.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameCan People Live on the Moon?
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about the moon. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
able air cold dust Earthexperiments move Neil Armstrong people survive
The moon is very different from name
. There
is no name
on the moon. The moon’s ground is
covered with many feet of name
. Temperatures are
both extremely hot and extremely name
. In 1969,
name was the first man to walk on the moon. Scientists
want to figure out if name
could live on the moon some
day. Because people need plants to name
, scientists
are doing name
to see if plants can live on the moon.
If the plants can grow and live there, scientists think that one day people will be
name to live there, too. How about you? Would you
name to the moon?
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameA Hero Who Gives Things Away
Cameron Payne started giving books away when a family lost everything in a house fire. He couldn’t replace everything they had lost, but he could do something. What can you do to make your community—and the world—a better place? Can you organize some of your friends and clean up some part of your neighborhood? Can you be a “big buddy” and read to or spend time with a younger child? Can you help older people in your neighborhood by walking a dog or doing some chores the people cannot do? Imagine what you would like to do, and then write the article that might appear in the newspaper about what you did to be a hero.
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Comprehension Response ActivitiesFYI for Kids — Level 1
Name nameTaking Out the Trash—By the Ton
Put all these words in the right places and complete this puzzle, which tells some things you learned about one teen’s attempt to clean the ocean. You can reread the article if you want to before completing the puzzle, but don’t look back at the article while you are doing the puzzle. When you complete the puzzle, read your summary to someone.
animals decided trash diving floatinginventor money problems recycled seventeen
Boyan Slat was name
years old. While he was
name in the ocean in Greece, he saw lots of plastic bags.
Someone has to clean this up, he thought. He name
that cleaning up the ocean would be his job. Boylan designed a huge
name barrier that would stay on the surface of the ocean.
Fish and other name
could swim under or around this
barrier, but name
would be trapped. Once it was trapped,
people could pick it up. The plastic could be name
. The
name earned from recycling the plastic could be used to
build more floating barriers. Boyan is an name
. Inventors
like Boyan can help us solve some of our biggest name
.
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